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Best broody breaker!

Post by Happy » Fri Jun 23, 2017 4:35 pm

I have two more hens threatening to go broody. Lord help me!!!! Little is hiding eggs...I found her stash in a spare water fountain on a shelf 6 feet up today. Only reason I found them was Baby was sitting beside the container while Little was inside adding to her collection lol. And another Cochin girl has been in a nesting box all day.
I can't handle any more broodies right now. Not until Lola "mother of the year" gets done. So quite by accident I may have found a temporary solution. Hubby came home this afternoon and decided to pull out his bagpipes to practice on the back deck. He has a gig this weekend with his band. Chickens do not like bagpipes! Needless to say they cleared out and there isn't one zen chicken left in the coop except Lola. They're all bug eyed, alert and non-broody now lol. And so am I!
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Re: Best broody breaker!

Post by windwalkingwolf » Fri Jun 23, 2017 7:11 pm

:rofl:
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Re: Best broody breaker!

Post by Jaye » Fri Jun 23, 2017 8:15 pm

Hope Lola doesn't give up when she's so close ... :hands:
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Re: Best broody breaker!

Post by Happy » Fri Jun 23, 2017 8:31 pm

Jaye wrote:
Fri Jun 23, 2017 8:15 pm
Hope Lola doesn't give up when she's so close ... :hands:
Lola is glued to her eggs not budging. Just went out to lock them up and she's talking to her eggs. So cute. That's the first I've seen her do that so somethings progressing. I'm praying for more than 1 chick. I've been lucky so far with Little's lone child but not sure things would work out as well with Lola.
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Re: Best broody breaker!

Post by Jaye » Fri Jun 23, 2017 8:47 pm

That's encouraging news - hens will often talk to their babies before hatching starts, Go, Lola!
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Re: Best broody breaker!

Post by Farrier1987 » Sun Jun 25, 2017 8:25 pm

They chicken, they dinna ken a pibroch?
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Post by kenya » Sun Jun 25, 2017 8:43 pm

Ha! Ha! Bagpipes! Who knew!
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Post by Happy » Sun Jun 25, 2017 10:39 pm

Bagpipes are a female repellant around here ;)
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Post by kenya » Mon Jun 26, 2017 2:28 pm

That I believe, I was never a fan.
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Re: Best broody breaker!

Post by Happy » Mon Jun 26, 2017 6:42 pm

I like bagpipes outside, in a parade, en masse.
One single (practicing) bagpiper is like loud fingernails on a chalkboard for me. It is entertaining that the lab joins in howling tho
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